Likely in sentence

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That if you wear your socks on the outside rather than the inside, you're much more likely to survive and not slip and fall.

Being provided with these reliable statistics from a trusted official source made people more likely to accept the reality that the earth is warming.

If anything, it made it more likely that those kids were put at risk.

Where I used to work before, in the West Bank, one can take a camera out, most likely not going to get shot, but in places we wanted to work, just try to pull a phone out, and you're dead — literally dead.

Of all of the available women in the UK, all Peter's looking for is somebody who lives near him, somebody in the right age range, somebody with a university degree, somebody he's likely to get on well with, somebody who's likely to be attractive, somebody who's likely to find him attractive.

So over the 200 years of whaling, when we were busy killing and removing these carcasses from the oceans, we likely altered the rate and geographic distribution of these whale falls that would descend into deep oceans, and as a result, probably led to a number of extinctions of species that were most specialized and dependent on these carcasses for their survival.

I want you to realize that if those children were white, it is more likely that their family stays together after that visit.

And their cases are less likely to go through a full investigation.

But on the other hand, if those kids are black, they are four times more likely to be removed, they spend longer periods of time in foster care, and it's harder to find them a stable foster placement.

And this raises a question: As digital technology makes things easier for movements, why haven't successful outcomes become more likely as well?

A recent study looking at penalty shootouts in football showed that players who represent countries with a very bad record in penalty shootouts, like, for example, England, tend to be quicker to take their shots than countries with a better record, and presumably as a result, they're more likely to miss.

So hoax appealers are more likely to shake their heads, to look away, and to make errors in their speech, whereas genuine appealers are more likely to express hope that the person will return safely and to avoid brutal language.

Cockroaches continue to thrive in their native tropical habitats, but without our heating systems, their urban cousins likely freeze and die out in just two winters.

You have a rough childhood, you're more likely to drink and smoke and do all these things that are going to ruin your health.

So there are real neurologic reasons why folks exposed to high doses of adversity are more likely to engage in high-risk behavior, and that's important to know.

But it turns out that even if you don't engage in any high-risk behavior, you're still more likely to develop heart disease or cancer.

We started simply with routine screening of every one of our kids at their regular physical, because I know that if my patient has an ACE score of 4, she's two and a half times as likely to develop hepatitis or COPD, she's four and half times as likely to become depressed, and she's 12 times as likely to attempt to take her own life as my patient with zero ACEs.

I mean, what's more likely: that extraterrestrial intelligences or multi-dimensional beings travel across vast distances of interstellar space to leave a crop circle in Farmer Bob's field in Puckerbrush, Kansas to promote skeptic.com,

What's more likely: that Arnold had extraterrestrial help in his run for the governorship, or that the "World Weekly News" makes stuff up? (Laughter) The same theme is expressed nicely here in this Sidney Harris cartoon.

So again, we can ask this: what's more likely?

So, although it's possible that most of these things are fake or illusions or so on, and that some of them are real, it's more likely that all of them are fake, like the crop circles.

Well, fascinatingly, it turns out that if you give children antibiotics in the first six months of life, they're more likely to become obese later on than if they don't get antibiotics then or only get them later, and so what we do early on may have profound impacts on the gut microbial community and on later health that we're only beginning to understand.

During that period, we'll likely spend a lot of time in hospitals and hospices and care homes.

Research tells us that the more a woman believes that everyone gets PMS, the more likely she is to erroneously report that she has it.

We know that the variables in a woman's environment are much more likely to cause her to be angry than her hormones, but when she attributes anger to hormones, she's absolved of responsibility or criticism.

Kenya's poor are five times more likely to be shot dead by the police who are meant to protect them than by criminals.

If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.

So Robert Provine, who has done a lot of work on this, has pointed out that you are 30 times more likely to laugh if you are with somebody else than if you're on your own, and where you find most laughter is in social interactions like conversation.

You can catch laughter from somebody else, and you are more likely to catch laughter off somebody else if you know them.

It's likely, rather, to swoosh right by.

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